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What the National Grange Stands For 
as Expressed at Its Recent Meeting 
Part II. 
“The farmer is interested in his produce 
up to the point where lie disposes of it. 
and in order to protect his economic 
interest he must see to it that he 
names and gets a price for his products 
which will give him a fair cost of 
production plus a fair profit.” It was 
further pointed out that the cost of 
manipulation and distribution—work per¬ 
formed by persons other than farmers— 
is a problem for persons other than farm¬ 
ers to settle—a consumer’s problem, in 
which the farmer’s only interest is that 
of the good citizen, and not a class in¬ 
terest, which has so long been assumed. 
It would seem, therefore, that the future 
policy of the Grange will be to concen¬ 
trate its educational and business activi¬ 
ties in developing a more intelligent and 
balanced production of farm products, in 
locating and developing profitable markets 
for the same on a co-operative basis, and 
the placing of farming generally on an 
equal footing with other productive busi¬ 
nesses. The program as adopted by the 
National Grange under the leadership of 
the new National Master. S. .T. Lowell, 
of New York, reads: "We believe the 
time has come when the farmer must have 
a voice in making the price on the pro¬ 
ducts of his labor, believing that one of 
the principal causes of depreciation in the 
number of farm homes is the fact that we 
have failed to co-operate in the selling of 
our products. In buying and selling co¬ 
operatively many sections and many un¬ 
dertakings have proven beyond a doubt 
the possibilities that lie in these direc¬ 
tions. _ Every Subordinate Grange should 
have its business agent, alive and alert, 
studying conditions and co-operating with 
other agents of the county, making a 
strong unit of the county; the county 
units combining in making the State the 
great clearing house for furnishing sup¬ 
plies and marketing produce; the States 
uniting through the National Grange, or 
men chosen by it, until the farming in¬ 
dustry shall act as one man.” 
Important Resolutions. —In addition 
to its action on the foregoing matters, the 
National Grange went on record as 
strongly in favor of returning the rail¬ 
roads to private ownership without delay ; 
of the sale of government-built ships to 
private owners, and of the operation of 
yards and ships by private capital, sub¬ 
ject to the strongest possible government 
control to protect the public against dis¬ 
crimination and exploitation. It also 
opposed military domination in any form 
and favored better physical instruction 
instead of compulsory military training. 
It favored imprisonment for all profiteers 
in food and other necessities of life; 
opposed government price-fixing iu any 
form ; opposed laud reclamation schemes 
and subsidies of all kinds; defended land 
banks against taxation of their bonds; 
pleaded for more land ownership to stem 
the rising tide of farm tenantry; sounded 
a strong note for the conservation of 
national resources; deplored the narrow 
governmental policy in administering the 
vocational educational bill; urged that 
rural school courses fit for life on. the 
farm and not away from it; and voted 
against affiliating with other existent 
farm organizations of a national or semi¬ 
national character. 
The Grange Stand. —The National ! 
Grange summarized its position as fol- I 
lows: “It ie the firm determination of 
the Grange to continue to afford a dis- i 
tinct leadership for agriculture and to | 
serve farm interests along the broad pol- i 
icy which it has always maintained, 
rather than tying up to other organiza- j 
tions and thus be compelled to adjust 
its policies to their wishes; to declare 
emphatically that certain of the economic 
problems of the present time are up to 
the consumer, and that it is not part of 
the farmer’s business to try to solve them 
all. but rather to attend strictly to his 
own end of the job and to apply his ef¬ 
forts there as never before; to refuse to 
entangle the Grange or the farmers with 
the unreasonable present demands of or¬ 
ganized labor, or to join forces with any 
of the radical tendencies of the present 
time; and to make a nation-wide appeal 
to farmers everywhere to cast in their 
lot with the Grange and to strengthen its 
hands to do for agriculture the things j 
that need so imperatively doing in the , 
near future; to keep clearly in mind the ' 
fact that while legislative and financial 
efforts in behalf of a more satisfactory 
agriculture constitute a legitimate part of 
Grange work, nevertheless a greater duty 
lies now as ever in educating and elevat¬ 
ing rural people and in assisting them to 
become dependable, forward-looking and 
achieving American citizens.” Tt is on 
this basis that the Grange is going iyto 
an intensive campaign for membership, 
the success of which will without doubt 
depend on what it actually accomplishes 
far the farmer and his family in a prac¬ 
tical way. E. 
Fertilizing Value of Mussel-bed and Sea¬ 
weed 
What is the value of mussel-bed and I 
seaweed for fertilizing purposes? I would 
like to hear from those who have had ex¬ 
perience. s. s. 
The requirement that the information 
must come from actual experience cuts us 
out. and we must turn this over to some 
of our seashore farmers. They will, no 
doubt, tell us. 
I T’S the same old story—there 
is never enough manure to go 
round. Every year the supply 
runs out before all the fields are 
covered. 
Supplement manure with fertilizer 
and make the manure go farther. 
You can cover more ground and 
get better results. Manure is good, 
but is not 
wellbalanced 
in plantfood. 
By supple¬ 
menting it 
with proper 
fertilizer you 
make a bal¬ 
anced ration 
for any crop 
you wish to 
grow. 
Fertilizer supplies in available form 
the additional plantfoods which 
must be brought to the farm. Use 
it with manure and increase your 
profits. 
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“More Plantfood for More 
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“High Analysis” Fertilizer for Corn 
One of These Will Fit the Conditions on Your Farm 
The figures represent percentages of ammonia, available 
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